Nelly Furtado has revealed one practice that made her “angry” early on in her career.
In a new interview with People, the Canadian superstar claimed her body and skin colour were edited on magazines in the early 2000s.
“I have olive skin, and they’d kind of lighten my skin a lot in photos,” she said, telling the outlet “a lot of airbrushing” was done at the time.
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The singer rose to fame in the decade after the release of her 2000 album Whoa, Nelly!. She became a smash success, delivering chart hits like Promiscuous and I’m Like a Bird.
But behind the scenes the star claimed magazines would “kind of take my hips down all the time – they would always cut off in editorials.”
“By my second album, I guess I was kind of angry about it,” she told the outlet.
Furtado first detailed the experience in 2003 on her second album Folklore.
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The star later opened up about how she navigated her early career, revealing she brought own carry-on of clothes and glitter to photo shoots.
She explained she did this as a backup if she didn’t like what the stylist had provided.
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“Just to make sure I was comfortable, and just blazing my own trail I guess, in my own way,” she said.
“You have to kind of have that sense of self,” she told the outlet.
Furtado recently released her seventh studio album, aptly titled 7, earlier this month.
The album marks a comeback for the singer after a seven-year-long music hiatus.
Furtado spoke to 9honey Celebrity ahead of the album release about gaining a new generation of fans from Gen Z – as well as her love for her original fanbase.
“Sometimes the things you make are not as popular or well-received as maybe the last thing you did, so to have songs I made over 20 years ago be popular is this total blessing,” she said.
“I just couldn’t be happier, so I had to kind of challenge myself to do it, to just put together something special again.”
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